ANED POLMAR ATLANTIQUE 2017

From October 10 to 12, 2017, as part of the ORSEC maritime system, the Atlantic maritime prefecture organized a major exercise to assist ships in difficulty (ANED) and to combat maritime pollution by hydrocarbons (POLMAR) along of the Atlantic seaboard. Called “ATLANTIC 2017â€, this exercise begun with the ANED component with the fictitious blackout (power failure) on board an oil tanker stopped at the entrance to Pertuis d’Antioche (Charente-Maritime). A plastron ship chartered for the exercise was assisted at sea and towed to the Atlantic port of La Rochelle. The exercise continued with the POLMAR component on October 11 and 12 in front of the Loire estuary (at the border of the departments of Loire-Atlantique and Vendée).